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Watching early returns tilt in favor of Rep. Brad Sherman on Tuesday night, the question was asked of the Sherman Oaks congressman: “How does it feel to topple an icon?” Dakota Smith in the Daily News.

Sherman avoided directly answering the question, but the query turned out to be the understatement of the night.

In one of the nastiest and most expensive races in the country, Sherman handily beat Rep. Howard Berman, a ranking member of Congress who’d served more than three decades on the Hill and is deeply respected by his colleagues.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, nursing a cold as he returned from the Obama victory celebration in Chicago, repeated on Wednesday that he has no plans or desire to go to Washington, D.C., to work for the administration.

“Four years ago, when the president called about some fire out here and he raised the topic, I told him I wanted to stay here,” Villaraigosa said. “Nothing has changed. I have a lot I want to do here in my last seven months and I’m not leaving.”

Villaraigosa has been among the top tier of Obama surrogates for the past several months, traveling throughout the country to help get out the Latino vote for the president.

“I predicted Latinos turnout would be 70 percent for this election and I think it was right around there,” Villaraigosa said.

Sacramento – Americans for Responsible Leadership, the Arizona non-profit corporation that made an anonymous $11 million donation to a California campaign committee, today sent a letter declaring itself to be the intermediary and not the true source of the contribution. It identified the true source of the contribution as Americans for Job Security, through a second intermediary, The Center to Protect Patient Rights. Under California law, the failure to disclose this initially was campaign money laundering. At $11 million, this is the largest contribution ever disclosed as campaign money laundering in California history. Califoernia FPPC release.

But on Sunday, actors from the adult film industry held a rally to remind the general public that they also are taxpayers, parents and patrons of local businesses who are against Measure B because they say it would have a ripple effect on Southern California’s economy as well as on public health.

“As a tax payer, if I wasn’t in the porn industry, I would be aghast at how much was being spent on supporting Measure B,” said Amber Lynn, an adult film actress, model and exotic dancer who has worked in the industry since 1984.